Furniture



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Patented July 5, 1927.

UNITED, STATES PATENTOFFICE. I

FRED E. MOORE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

FURNITURE.

Application filed April 17, 1926. Serial No. 102,652.

feet or limbs, save and except external stools or short extensions carried by the chair.

\ The present invention contemplates-a chair or article of furniture in which the cushioned effect of the chair is at all times maintained for the limbs, the torso and the head, when the'chair is to be'used as a couch.

In practicing the l11V611l1l011 ,1 provide a chair having a seat, an auxiliary cushion member normally beneath said cushion portionof the seat when the furniture is acting as a chairas wellas a cushioned back. The

seat cushion may-be drawn forwardly and maintained in such forward position by the chair frame and swinging leg members carried, by the seat, and when the back of the chair is tipped, the auxiliary'cushion member is raised to the level of the seat cushion which has been broughtforward.. The back may be maintained in an inclined position v in any approved manner, such as providing legs therefor to hold the outer extremity n avdefinite position. vThe invention has for an object the provision of an article of furniturewhich will perform a two-fold purpose, namely, that'of supporting a person either in a sitting position or in a reclining position.

Another object is the provision of an article of furniture which may be utilizedv as a chair or as a couch, and in which all.

the cushioning members are self-c0ntained upon the said article of furniture and so as to be at all times ready for instant use either as a chair or couch. 7

Another object is the provision of an article offurniture which is neat in appearance, efficient in operation, and generally superior in point of relative simplicity and inexpensiveness of construction.

lVith the above and other" obgects in v ew,

the invention consists in the novel and useful provision, formation, construction, association and relative arrangement of parts, members and features, all as shown in one embodiment in the accompanying drawings, described generally, and more particularly pointed out in claims.

In the drawings; 7 v Figure 1 is a side elevation of the chair;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the chair I showing the back tipped, the cushioned seat drawn forwardly and a cushion member normally beneath the seat raised to a position on a level with the cushioned seat and the back;

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 5, t

, Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 and showing the back tipped; I

Figure 5 is a fragmentary plan view of the chair Figure dis a fragmentary elevation of the chair looking in the direction of-the arrow 6 in Figure 4; v p I Figure 7 is an enlarged detail of certain mechanism of the invention, the same being taken on the line 77 of Figure 8; and,

Figure 8 is an enlarged cross sectional detail of the invention on the line 8+8 of Fig. 8.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are v designated by the same reference characters. u i

' Referring with particularity to the drawing the improved article of furniture is designated as an entirety by A, and the same includes a frame a, aback 5, upper and lower seatniembers 0 and d, and mechanism desi nated generally ase adapted to move the lowerseat member'b to a given height relative to the framed when the back his tipped, all of which elements aforesaid are used in practicing one embodiment of the in vention. V

In the present instance the article of furniture is shown as a chair, and which chair is provided with front and back supports or legs 1 and 2 respectively, a bottom frame a member 3 having portions thereof extending between the legs for bracing the same and with arm, members. 4 extending between the respective front and back leg members.

Other bracing means for the legs may of course be pr0v1ded,-as is customary. The back memberis hingedly united at 5 to the legs 2 and whereby the back may be tipped relative to the frame. This back member is directly associated with the means 0, there being one of said means for each chair side, and as said means (2 is identical for each side, only one of the said means will be de scribed.

Referring to Figure 3 a track-way 6 which is of channel formation extends from the front leg 1 to the rear leg 2, and in a downward direction from the front leg to the rear leg. The bottom leg member of such trackway is cut away at 8 and a memher 9 extends from the upper leg 10 of such track-way and is bent beneath the other leg, as shown at 11, see Figure 7. Likewise constituting a part of the means c are two further track-way members mounted in spaced parallelism beneath the lower s .at member d, as shown at 12. These track-ways are likewise of channel formation. A bell crank lever 13 has the short end thereof pivoted at 1 1 to the front of the chair frame, and the terminal portion of the long arm thereof carries a roller 15 received in the track-way A rear bell crank lever 16 is pivoted at 17 at a rear portion of the chair frame, the pivot pin lying at the bend betwe a the long and short levers of such bell crank lever, and the long lever thereof carries a roller 18 recievable in the track-way 12. A

link 19 is pivoted to the short length lever of the bell crank lever 16 at 20, and the opposite end of such link is pivoted at 21 at the bent portion between the long and short arms of the bell crank lever 13. A link 22 I is pivoted at one end 23 to the back I) and the opposite end is pivoted at 2 1 to the bell crank lever 16 and specifically to the long lever arm thereof.

The upper seat member 0 carries adjacent the base portion thereof and at the rearward end thereof, two side extensions 26. The extensions being identical, only one will be described, and reference is made to Figure 8. This extension includes a strap 27 received in a guide 28, the guide being secured to a side of the seat 0, and end of said extension carrying a roller 29, the roller being received within the track-way 6. The said strap is slotted longitudinally at 30, and a pin 31 is secured to the guide 28 and passed through the slot for limiting outward or inward movement of the strap relative thereto. The outer extremities of the frame of the seat a carry pivoted legs 32, said legs being of the telescoping type so that the same may be adjusted as to the height that they hold the seat 0, as indicated in dotted and solid lines of Figure 2. Likewise the back I) carries pivoted legs 33 whereby the same may be maintained in a given inclined position relative to the frame a. The back is so formed as to allow the legs 33 to be received within the cushion portion thereof as indicated at fdotted lines in Figure 1 when the device is acting as a chair. It is intended that the back as well as the upper and lower seats, or what may be termed main seat and sub-seat should be cushioned as illustrated fragmentarily at at in Fig. 5. To this end it is of course realized that the back, main seat and sub-seat would be provided with framing, as illustrated for the seats at 35 and 36 to properly support the springs and padding thereof.

The operation will be readily apparent from the following brief statement Assuming that the chair is of the appearance shown in Figure 1 and it is desired to convert the same into a couch, the main seat d is drawn forwardly from the position shown in Figure 1 to the position shown in Figure 3 at 37, and it will be seen that the roller 29 carried by the strap 27 will follow the trackway 6 and be prevented from escaping from said track-way by the end-piece 9 shown in Figure 7, the roller 29 dropping into the cut away or interrupted portion 8 of the lower leg of the track-way. The legs 32- may then be dropped into position as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The back Z) may then be tipped and this tipping will raise the sub-seat or bottom seat member upwardly to where it is on the level with the inner end portion of the seat 0. It will be remembered that the link 22 is connected to the arm 16, and that a roller 18 is carried by the said arm 16, which roller is within the track-way 12. When the back 6 is tipped at its hinge con nection 5 relative to the back supports or legs of the chair, the link 22 will revolve the arm 16 about the pivot point 17, and the lower end of such lever will move the link 19 forwardly; As this link is pivoted at 21 to the lever 13 this lever 13 will be revolved from a lower to an upper position aboutits pivot point 1%, and as the upper extremity of such lever carries a roller 15 within the track way 12, an upward movement of the front and rear levers, namely, 13 and 16, will by their travel withinthe track-way 12 raise the subseat. The legs 33 may be dropped from the back so as to hold the back inclined. stabilizing medium for the sub-seat I have provided means f which includes two straps to and 11 hinged-at 4-2 wit-h the lowermost end of the strap 41 hinged to the bottom frame at 13 and the upper end of the strap 10 hinged at 4 1 beneath the track-way 12. Two of such hinges are provided, one for each side of the sub-seat. It is intended that these straps should be relatively wide so that the sub-seat will be prevented from forward or backward movement and thus the subseat maintained in a definite position without being unstable.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in practicing the invention, in departure from the specific showing of the drawing, without departing from the true spirit of the invention.

As a' Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 7

1. Improvements of the character disclosed, comprising a frame, first and second cushion members normally positioned one above the other, a cushion back hinged to said frame, guide means between the said frame and the uppermost cushion member whereby said uppermost cushion member may be extended forwardly relative to the frame member, guides carried by the lowermost cushion member and means receivable in said guides and associated with the back whereby when the back is tipped relative to the frame member, said lowermost cushion member is raised a determined distance relative to the frame.

2. Improvements of the character disclosed, comprising a frame, first and second cushion members normally positioned one above the other, a cushlon back hinged to said frame, guide meansbetween said frame and the uppermost cushion member where-- by said uppermost cushion member may be extended forwardly relative to the frame 7 member, guides carried by the lowermost cushlon member and means receivable 1n said guides and associated with the back whereby when the back is tipped relative to the frame member said lowermost cushion member is raised a determined distance relative to the frame; there being separate means for the uppermost cushion member and for the back for maintaining the upper-V most cushion member in extended position and the back in its tipped position.

3. A chair capable of being converted into a couch, including a frame, supporting legs therefor, a back hinged to said frame, upper and lower seat members normally positioned one above the other when acting as a chair, pivoted to the said frame and secured to the lowermost seat member, links between the bell crank levers and the back, guide means between said frame and said uppermost seat member andwhereby when the uppermost seat member is extended forwardly of the said frame, and the back tipped, the lowermost seat member is raised to position the same in substantially alignment with the extended seat member.

In testimony whereof, I

name to this, specification. V

FRED E. MOORE.

have signed my front and rear bell crank levers 

